Apr 3 1987
From The Space Library
NASA announced that Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Director Dr. Lew Allen selected a Virginia site for a Space Station Program office. The 110,000 square feet of leased space in Reston, Virginia, would house NASA's Space Station Program director and some 400 JPL and NASA personnel. Initial occupancy was planned for summer 1987. (NASA Release 87-49)
NASA announced that it was proceeding toward design and development of a Space Station that would establish a permanent U.S. human presence in space by the mid-1990's. It would seek proposals from industry for a phased development of the Space Station, including estimates for an enhanced-capability Space Station configuration.
NASA reported that the first phase of the Space Station development, the revised baseline configuration, which would provide an initial, permanently habitable research capability by 1996, had been approved by the President. It would include a laboratory and habitation modules, four resource nodes, a polar orbiting platform, and experiment provisions outside of the pressurized modules. (NASA Release 87-50; LA Times, Apr 4/87)
NASA Administrator Dr. James C. Fletcher and European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Reiman Luest announced that the Space Shuttle would be used for the launch of the joint NASA/ESA Ulysses mission to the Sun in October 1990. At the same time, they announced that the launch, also from the Space Shuttle, of the Galileo mission to Jupiter had been moved up to October/November 1989. Since the distance to the Sun is considerably shorter than to Jupiter, the Ulysses spacecraft would begin to transmit data in 1994, a year earlier than the Galileo spacecraft. (NASA Release 87-51)
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